A fisherman has been fined for lying to police about being attacked – so that officers would give him a lift home. Matthew McAtasney, 19, claimed to have been kicked and punched last year.
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The BBC is going to court in a bid to force Microsoft help track down the source of a Doctor Who leak. A 53-second clip of Jodie Whittaker as the series' iconic lead character, The Doctor, was leaked online in June.
A man racked up over €40,000 in motoring fines in under four hours after racing through the streets in a hired Lamborghini. The man, believed to be a British and in his early 20s, rented the Huracan sports car while holidaying in Dubai, The Times reports.
A man called the police after a kangaroo crashed through his living room window in the middle of the night and upended his home. Instead of being arrested for breaking and entering, the young kangaroo was bundled away by animal rescuers and taken to a nearby shelter.
A judge ordered that a man in court's mouth be duct-taped after he interrupted proceedings a dozen times. Judge John Russo, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, warned Franklyn Williams, 32, to be quiet at least 12 times over the course of 30 minutes.
The world's most prestigious mathematics medal has been stolen just half an hour after it was awarded. The Fields medal was stolen from Caucher Birkar, one of the four joint winners of the award commonly called the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics".
The PSNI has publicly shamed a member of the public who called 999 to complain that their local tanning salon had closed. The caller wanted to know "how they could claim back their unused 25 minutes", police said on Facebook.